Another Mystery Package....

I know I have posted before about the online swap group I take part in. I love it! We do monthly Mystery Swaps. The partners are random, and we send 'ingredients' to our partner so she can make a card with them and post a picture on our online forum for the rest of the group to see. It's fun, and it forces me to work with products and things I normally wouldn't. Here's the package I just received for July... Now, red is my fave color, so I thought this would be SO easy. But, I do not, ever, under any circumstance use stickers of any kind on my creations. So, that threw me for a loop. We do not have to use every single thing sent, and can add minimal items to it. I left out only the bow sticker. Here's what I came up with.

The card base was bigger than my standard fave size of A2, so I trimmed it down. Then it was too white for the other papers, so I sponged some Cherry Cobbler lightly around the edges. The red paper was too bright for the base then, so I covered it with torn and battered velleum. The papers were run through the Big Shot with the Top Note Die. I then cut strips and matched it up alternating the heart paper with the shimmery white paper. I punched the stamped image, and used stickers to adhere the vellum over it. I wrapped the whole card base in crochet thread before adhering the top layer. I like it. I wanted a vintage feel so the colors really needed muting. I didn't waste paper either, here's what I did with the die cut negative...

I framed the inside of the card where the sentiment and written message will go. Someone is definitely getting this for V-Day in 2011 :) Now, I just have to work on Christmas!

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Hope you all like it. Supplies are unknown as everything was sent to me. Dies and punches, as well as inks I added are SUO as always:)

It's HERE, Oh Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY!!!! I just got my preorder in today!!!! This is it!!!! Well, most of my reinkers are backordered so I left the two I got out of this shot, but here are my goodies!!!! I hope my husband isn't too hungry tonight!!!! I have some big time playing to do!!!! Look at the wonderful new punch, called Modern Label! Would you take a gander at that beautiful paper, and the DSP??? Ribbon, cardstock, ink, and stamps GALORE!!! What do I play with first???

Can you tell I am a little excited? LOL! My husband got home early, the girls and I weren't even home yet from running errands. So, he was home, my 2 boxes from SU on the porch in the almost 100 degree day! Whew, I 'bout lost my mind. He now knows to bring my boxes in if he is home...LOL!!! I cut into the boxes much like a child tearing Christmas paper while he snickered at me and made jokes about all the stamping 'crap' (how dare he!). He really doesn't mind it, he just knows it gets to me when he fusses about it. But, as much as I love him, my focus will be elsewhere this evening!!! Oh, yeah, new stuff!!!!

Mail Time!!!

Lookie what the mail lady brought for me today!!! This package was sent to me all the way from my friend, Siohban in Japan!!! It was like Christmas to get this special package, and I just love everything in it!!! The notebook is a gift she made for me as I posted on her blog giveaway (and I have posted the giveaway on mine, scroll down a few entries, only 2 women are getting gifts from me so far, I need to give away 3 more!!!). I love the coffee theme, and on the first page she wrote, To My Coffee Loving Friend...isn't that sweet? I am such a coffee nut! The rest of the package is my gift for a blogger group challenge she and I are both members of. The challenge is posted on here, it's the Drama Queen scrapbook page. I never win anything, so when she said she drew my name, I was so estatic! I am tickled pink. The little packages of stick on crystals even have Japanese writing on them, not that I have any idea what it says, but it's too cool! Oh, and felt shapes for Christmas, just in time as I must do some Holiday pages!!! And a box of chocolate cream covered biscuit sticks! These will be heaven with my coffee tomorrow morning (or tonight...LOL), but according to the nutrition info (I shouldn't have looked at it!), they will have to serve as breakfast, too! I love this gift, Siobhan, thank you SO very much!!!